Ansible: Playbooks

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What is YAML:

YAML stands for YAML Ain’t Markup Language, which is human-readable and often used in the configuration file.

Features of YAML:

Compared to XML or JSON, YAML is less complex and provides the same features.

It provides configuration settings without the need to learn complex code types such as CSS, JavaScript or PHP

Basic Rules for YAML:

You must end the YAML files with .yaml or .yml extension.

YAML must be case sensitive.

YAML doesn’t support the use of tabs. Instead of tabs, it uses spaces which are supported universally.

Basic Data Types of YAML:

YAML supports some basic data types which can be used with programming languages. Such as

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